UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Lakhdar Brahimi is resigning as the international point man on Syria, the U.N. chief announced Tuesday, marking a second failure by the United Nations and Arab League to end the country's worsening civil war and highlighting the deep divisions among the...

LOS ANGELES—Long before he got to Hollywood in 2012, Jihad Abdo was already a bankable star. Over a 30-year career, he had been featured in hundreds of TV episodes, 43 movies and 21 plays set in modern and ancient times, in roles as varied as villain, military officer and...

ABOARD CARGO SHIP ARK FUTURA (AP) — Denmark's foreign minister on Tuesday urged Syria to give up the last of its chemical weapons agents within days to meet a June 30 deadline for completely ridding the war-torn country of its lethal stockpile. Martin Lidegaard said there are...

  Evidence "strongly suggests" Syria's government has used chlorine gas on three towns in mid-April in violation of the chemical weapons treaty Damascus joined last year, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. "Evidence strongly suggests that Syrian government helicopters...